Tag: tpp
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode244 – No Economic Recovery, TPP vs WWW, Exit Intel
Economic news reminds us, “There will be no recovery”; TPP passed and could kill the web; Activists drop flyers on NSA urging them to quit.
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TPP Likely To Force Canada To Repeal Local Data Protection Laws
from techdirt.com: Techdirt has written a couple of times about European sensitivities regarding data protection, in particular when it comes to privacy rules requiring local storage of personal data. It turns out that Europe is not alone in its concern that agreements like TAFTA/TTIP and TISA could jeopardize this approach. An article in The Tyee…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode233 – War Manual, Star Cold Wars, Dancing In Japan
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode233 – War Manual, Star Cold Wars, Dancing In Japan Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: The Pentagon’s New ‘Law Of War Manual’ Is Chilling Update to…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode220 – Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode220 – Exposing TPP, Suing BoC, Crashing Monsanto Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Negotiators Burn Last Opportunity to Salvage the #TPP by Caving on Copyright Term…
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Obama’s Asia trip fails to achieve goals, experts say
from chinadaily.com: As the dust settles on US President Barack Obama’s Asian trip, it seems that Washington got less out of it than its hosts, but Beijing is now more aware of US intentions in the region, observers said. During Obama’s trip, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines have achieved their goal of a…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode189 – More Good News, Seawater Fuel, Blood Moon
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode189 – More Good News, Seawater Fuel, Blood Moon Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Metgasco’s Gas Exploration Well Delayed After Protesters Block Entrance to Bentley Site…
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Obama Nominates Former SOPA Lobbyist to Help Lead TPP Negotiations
By Maira Sutton / from EFF.org: President Obama has nominated former SOPA lobbyist Robert Holleyman to join the team of U.S. negotiators leading the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks. If confirmed by the Senate, the former chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) would serve as a Deputy to the U.S. Trade Representative. Coincidentally,…
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Japan, U.S. apart over farm produce, auto trade in TPP trade talks
from houseofjapan.com: Japan and the United States moved no closer to an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact in ministerial talks Saturday, remaining divided over thorny farm produce and auto trade issues. Both governments will “continue to work” on narrowing the gaps ahead of an upcoming plenary ministerial meeting in Singapore, Japanese…
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…
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TPP Protests Across North America Aim to Block ‘NAFTA on Steroids’
from beyondchron.org: Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action Friday to stop a massive new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership—commonly referred to as “NAFTA on steroids.” In the U.S., the immediate fight is to block a bill that would grant the president “fast track” authority to sign…
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North American Integration Continues After Robert Pastor’s Death
from thenewamerican.com: The plans of the last decade for a North American Union (NAU) led by Robert Pastor, director of the Center for North American Studies at American University (AU) in Washington D.C. have accelerated in recent months under different cover. Pastor died on January 8, but not without having done serious damage to American…
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New World Next Week: Episode174 – Rice Smackdown, Sriracha Shutdown, Pizza Throwdown
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode174 – Rice Smackdown, Sriracha Shutdown, Pizza Throwdown Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Japan Dismantles Rice Subsidies Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance Story #2:…
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TPP Negotiators Accused Of Bullying; Refusing To Budge On Ridiculous IP And Corporate Sovereignty Demands
from techdirt.com: This is hardly a surprise, but more reports are coming out revealing that the US’s ongoing strategy in negotiating the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement is to not take into account the many, many concerns about the US’s hardline, maximalist position on both intellectual property issues and efforts to give corporations sovereignty over…
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
from globalresearch.ca: Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health,…
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Japan Dismantles Rice Subsidies
from theland.com.au: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has approved a plan to end a four-decade long policy that has helped to sustain the nation’s 1.2 million rice farms. The gentan system, which has paid landowners to reduce crops since 1970, will be dismantled by the end of the fiscal year through March 31, 2019,…